How much does The Fairness Project give?

The Fairness Project reported 11 grants totaling $26,909,338 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Fairness Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (61%), Health (19%), Employment (5%).

Who are The Fairness Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Floridians Protecting Freedom ($16M), Missourians for Constitutional Freedom ($4.5M), Utah Decides Healthcare ($3.8M).

Does The Fairness Project fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Fairness Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Open Society Action Fund Inc, American Civil Liberties Union Inc.

Where is The Fairness Project based?

The Fairness Project is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

The Fairness Project

Promoting general social welfare of the community through the use of, and education around, ballot measures advancing economic and social equity.

$27M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2024: 6
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $935,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $16,400,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 13; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $4.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Fairness Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	11	$27M	73%
FY2023	6	$6.6M	100%
FY2022	8	$1.6M	88%
FY2021	4	$521k	100%
FY2020	6	$1.5M	83%
FY2019	1	$285k	0%
FY2018	10	$5.4M	60%
FY2017	13	$3.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$28MHealth$8.9MEmployment$2.5MPublic Benefit$2.3MHuman Services$2.1MCrime & Legal$1.1MEnvironment$1.1MPhilanthropy$235kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Floridians Protecting Freedom	$16,400,000	1	17%
Missourians for Constitutional Freedom	$4,450,000	1	68%
Utah Decides Healthcare	$3,763,961	3	n/a
Arizona for Abortion Access	$3,560,000	2	n/a
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights	$2,800,000	1	7%
Nebraskans for Reproductive Freedom	$1,500,000	1	13%
Better Jobs for Alaska Inc	$1,430,000	1	86%
Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights	$1,250,000	1	7%
Insure the Good Life	$1,096,829	1	n/a
Black Progressive Action Coalition	$935,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of The Fairness Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Floridians Protecting Freedom	$16,400,000	1	17%
Missourians for Constitutional Freedom	$4,450,000	1	68%
Utah Decides Healthcare	$3,763,961	3	n/a
Arizona for Abortion Access	$3,560,000	2	n/a
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights	$2,800,000	1	7%
Nebraskans for Reproductive Freedom	$1,500,000	1	13%
Better Jobs for Alaska Inc	$1,430,000	1	86%
Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights	$1,250,000	1	7%
Insure the Good Life	$1,096,829	1	n/a
Black Progressive Action Coalition	$935,000	2	n/a
Maine Equal Justice Project	$621,000	1	33%
Families USA Foundation Inc	$600,000	1	9%
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom PAC	$500,000	1	6%
North Dakota Citizens Protecting the Constitution	$456,452	1	44%
Protect AR Constitution	$450,000	1	56%
One Person One Vote	$445,000	1	2%
Forward Action Fund	$435,000	1	2%
Missourians for Healthy Families and Fai	$375,000	2	15%
Idahoans for Healthcare	$337,946	1	n/a
Montana Hospital Association	$325,000	1	3%
Mi Time to Care	$300,000	2	25%
Raise the Wage Nebraska	$265,000	1	9%
Will of the People Arizona	$250,000	1	8%
South Dakotans for Fair Elections	$250,000	1	15%
Nebraskans for Paid Sick Leave	$250,000	2	55%
Maine People's Alliance	$241,000	2	6%
Raise Up Missouri	$235,000	2	n/a
Defend Alaska's Care	$221,506	1	n/a
Healthcare for Alaska	$221,506	1	n/a
Demand Justice	$221,239	1	4%
Demand Justice PAC	$200,000	1	n/a
Equity PAC	$200,000	1	n/a
Colorado Families First	$200,000	1	2%
Missourians for Healthcare	$200,000	1	3%
South Dakotans Decide Healthcare	$110,000	1	4%
Lincoln for Fair Housing	$100,000	1	n/a
Arkansans for a Fair Wage	$100,000	1	n/a
Yes on Measure A for Sheriff Accountability Sponsored by Civil and	$100,000	1	24%
Utah Health Policy Project	$75,800	2	7%
Vermont for Reproductive Liberty Ballot Committee Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Healthy Workforce Abq	$50,000	1	n/a
Healthcare For Mississippi	$50,000	1	n/a
Tucson Fight for 15	$50,000	1	n/a
Raise Up Massachusetts	$20,000	1	n/a
Mainers for Home Care	$20,000	1	2%
Arizona Wins	$14,000	1	n/a
Protect Majority Rule	$12,886	1	10%
Nebraska Appleseed Action Fund	$10,000	1	5%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	$7,500	1	0%

The Fairness Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC55.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · American Civil Liberties Union Inc · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · North Fund · Think Big America · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Our American Future Action · Tides Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Fairness Project

How much does The Fairness Project give?: The Fairness Project reported 11 grants totaling $26,909,338 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Fairness Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (61%), Health (19%), Employment (5%).
Who are The Fairness Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Floridians Protecting Freedom ($16M), Missourians for Constitutional Freedom ($4.5M), Utah Decides Healthcare ($3.8M).
Does The Fairness Project fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fairness Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Open Society Action Fund Inc, American Civil Liberties Union Inc.
Where is The Fairness Project based?: The Fairness Project is based in DC.